Report: 10,000 New Yorkers died from smoking-related cancers in 2009

6:35 PM,
Feb. 13, 2013

Written by

Haley Viccaro
| Gannett Albany Bureau

Health groups called on the state Legislature Wednesday to increase anti-tobacco funding and reject the governor's program cuts to help decrease the number of smoking-related cancer deaths in the state.

Almost 10,000 people died in 2009 from cancers related to smoking in New York, according to a report from the American Cancer Society. That accounted for more than one in four cancer deaths statewide - out of a total of 34,916 that year, the report said.

"This report documents, for the first time, the amount of cancer deaths in New York that are caused by smoking," said Blair Horner, vice ...